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BIZ / Twitter Blog:
Finding A Perfect Match — Last month, Twitter had a very special date in New York City. We met with another startup, had lunch at the famous Shake Shack, and spent some quality time together in Union Square. The meeting with this other startup was largely a formality …
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Twitter Buys Summize For About $15M: Gets Search - And Maybe A Business Model — Now it's a done deal. Twitter has purchased search engine Summize, a deal that leaked out last week but didn't wrap up until the last few days. Twitter's Biz Stone has the official announcement here …
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Microsoft tells Congress Yahoogle will own 90% of ad market — A US Senate subcommittee heard testimony today about the competitive implications of Yahoo's recent deal with Google, which will see the company mix ads supplied by Google with its own on search result pages.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:Microsoft to Congress: But Google Will Have Outrageous 90% Market Share!
Jim Puzzanghera / L.A. Times Tech Blog:Lawmakers ponder what's worse: A Google/Yahoo deal or a Microsoft/Yahoo marriage?
Diane Bartz / Reuters:Microsoft cites Yang comments on Google-Yahoo deal
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Declan McCullagh / The Iconoclast:The backstory on Senate's Google-Yahoo hearing
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San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. officials locked out of computer network — (07-14) 19:23 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — A disgruntled city computer engineer has virtually commandeered San Francisco's new multimillion-dollar computer network, altering it to deny access to top administrators even as he sits in jail on $5 million bail, authorities said Monday.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Confirmed: Apple files suit against Psystar — [UPDATE: Suit now confirmed. More to follow shortly ...] — It seems that Apple has grown tired of Apple-clone Psystar and has filed suit against the Florida company at the federal district court for the northern district of California.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
iPhone 3G: Sold out in 21 states — Shoppers hunting for iPhone 3Gs can still find them — if they're willing to get up early and, in some cases, drive long distances. — As of 6:00 a.m. EDT Tuesday, all three models (8GB black, 16 GB black or white) of the hot-selling device were sold out in 21 states …
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Bold review: we've been rockin' it for a month — This might be a shocker out there to many, but we do actually, you know, not leak things from time to time. What's important here, is that we've been rockin' a BlackBerry Bold for around a month now and have a great handle on the unit.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
SK Telecom In Talks To Buy Sprint Nextel, CNBC Says; WSJ Says SK May Invest, But No Merger Talks (Updated) — SK Telecom (SKM) is in talks to acquire Sprint Nextel (S), according to CNBC. This is not a new theory; rumors that SK Telecom might want to buy Sprint have been around for at least a year.
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Mini Exit: BallHype and ShowHype Acquired for $3 Million — The husband and wife behind BallHype and ShowHype, two Digg clones that focus on baseball and entertainment news, have earned a modest pay day: $3 million from media group Future US. That's not bad given the two never raised …
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Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
TiVo Summer Update (9.4) Trickles Out — As TiVo does, they've started rolling out the summer software update ahead of a general release. In fact, the priority page hasn't been updated yet. Though, I hear all boxes should be upgraded by the end of the month. Of the disclosed new features, two in particular caught my eye.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Hold On — Issues Remain Over Google & Viacom's Deal On YouTube Viewing Privacy — Google and Viacom have reached an agreement meant to ease privacy concerns about YouTube records being handed over to Viacom through a court order. However, there remain some questions about how exactly the …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Pandora Usage Stats Prove It's iPhone's Killer App — Pandora's internet radio has always been one of those sites that was really cool in concept, but too inconvenient to ever go mainstream. The service was long tied to computers only, and while it eventually expanded to special internet radios …
Business Wire:
Intel Posts Record Second-Quarter Revenue of $9.5 Billion — SANTA CLARA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Intel Corporation today announced record second-quarter revenue of $9.5 billion, operating income of $2.3 billion, net income of $1.6 billion and earnings per share (EPS) of 28 cents.
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
Kindle 2.0 Coming Around October 2008 — An insider let slip that two new Amazon Kindle models will hit stores this holiday season, with the first coming as early as October. — The first is an updated version with the same sized screen, a smaller form factor, and an improved interface.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Copy and Paste — There are two possibilities regarding the iPhone's continued lack of a system-wide copy-and-paste clipboard. Either Apple's iPhone UI team doesn't plan to add it, or, they haven't gotten to it yet. … No direct quotes from Joswiak, but based on Segan's paraphrasing …
Agence France Presse:
Brazilians first to unlock new iPhone: reports — SAO PAULO (AFP) - A Brazilian company is claiming to be the first to have found a way to unlock Apple's new iPhone 3G, getting around restrictions that require users to sign up for calling plans with exclusive carriers, reports said Tuesday.
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:iPhone 3G Unlocked with SIM Card Adapter
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Vanessa Fox. Nude.:
Search-Friendly Flash? — A couple of weeks ago, Adobe announced that it was working with Google and Yahoo! on making Flash content easier to index in search engines. Google said it was using the search-engine specific Flash player that Adobe had made available (Yahoo!'s integration is still in the works).
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
iPhone Developers have a blockbuster weekend — Today I visited two iPhone developers to see how things went. First we visited Evernote, which makes a great note-taking app. This is the most useful app I've loaded on my iPhone so far (which has more than 30 apps loaded on it). Really killer thing?
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Do Startup Companies Need Community Managers? — You know what little startup companies need these days? They need to hire more people! It may be a frightening thought, but in an increasingly social world - being social is becoming an important full time job.
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Google pushes towards 70 percent of all U.S. searches; Yahoo, Microsoft push towards zero percent — The ascent continues. Google accounted for a ridiculous 69.17 percent of all U.S. search in June, according to new data from Hitwise. What's even more ridiculous is that the search engine is still adding market share.
